Most Christians will follow the lead of the new elected Pope in Rome and celebrate Easter in four weeks. This article will try to summarise the narrative of Jesus’ Passion (the period between Easter and Ascension) based on some Gnostic writings. We will particularly view the 1500 year old scripts of the Nag Hammadi library discovered in Egypt in 1945 and show … Continue reading →

That movie title “The Right thing to do” of Spike Lee would not fly today. Rather Raymond Chandlers “The Big Sleep”. Maybe. Something feels not right any more. Specifically the “Right” (as opposed to Wrong not to Left) is an endangered species. One has to decode first all the Western mental systems before separating Wright from Wrong! … Continue reading →

This article complements the concepts explored in my article “Archetypes of the Mature Masculine” and applies them to the other half of humanity—women. In doing so I apply the same principles, not in a mechanistic way, but in the spirit of Jung’s archetypes and their rationale. Lets start with a few words of C. G. Jung himself where he talks about the Anima.
Thomas Moore and Douglas Gillette adopted and extended Jung’s approach in their exploration of the masculine psyche by using the collective archetypes of the King, the Warrior, the Magician, and the Lover. Obviously those four male archetypes can be translated and mapped in female clusters of virtues, specific attributes associated with four major female archetypes: the Queen, the Mother, the Wise Woman and the (female) Lover found in history and myths. This has been done before. Continue reading →

This article explores Wittgenstein’s Tractatus as a mystical, metaphysical insight in the light of Eastern philosophy, Catholic mysticism and C. G Jung. Please be gentle and read this as an (intuitive) essay not as a scholarly article. There are methodological implications of Wittgenstein’s doctrine of silence for transcendental philosophy, Zen Buddhism, psychoanalysis and metaphysics. Or there is a line from Lao-Tse to Wittgenstein, connected … Continue reading →

Last Saturday (yesterday). I went on a retreat (religious exercise) at the Benedictine monastery St. Ottilien with twenty others men and women looking after their private center and true selves: “Looking for the self” What do we know of the psyche and soul? The discussion was lead by two monks – the longtime Prior Claudius and … Continue reading →

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Fallen Angel

A Homo Fabers quest for spirituality and the psychoanalytic world of C.G Jung

...seen from Christianity, History, Science and Philosophy.
My desire to travel and my professional life have given me the opportunity to experience many different cultures. Like many, who started the search in the late 60s, I looked to the East for spiritual answers.The monastery St. Ottilien allowed me to retrieve my catholic roots and to start the individuation during my current professional and personal transition. Articles in German or English. Google

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